Example sentences of "[adv] by [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maintaining the storage system would be the clear responsibility of the CSSU , ensuring quality in a number of ways , eg by chasing up holders of master files , by inserting new objects into files , and by making secondary copies of files and documents . |
| 2 | She might have made her point a lot better by picking up Mouse and dumping him in the garbage can — instead she responded with violence that was really out of proportion to Mouse 's attack . |
| 3 | We need only recognize that history is a method with no distinct object corresponding to it to reject the equivalence between the notion of history and the notion of humanity which some have tried to foist on us with the unavowed aim of making historicity the last refuge of a transcendental humanism : as if men could regain the illusion of liberty on the plane of the ‘ we ’ merely by giving up the ‘ I 's that are too obviously wanting in consistency . |
| 4 | Only by living up to Responsible Care and satisfying society 's continuously growing demands can the industry improve its image . |
| 5 | The King of Prussia kept up a desperate defensive campaign against his other main enemies , Austria and Russia ; Britain contributed to this struggle not only by keeping up the army for the defence of Hanover and western Germany but also by supplying money , first as loans and then about £3m. in grants , to keep the Prussian army going . |
| 6 | It is only by balancing up all the factors , getting the degree of difficulty perceived on all sides , that the whole picture becomes clear . |
| 7 | Using Britain as an example , Napoleon III and the economists who advised him believed that the introduction of free trade would help to strengthen the French economy , since only by opening up French industry to greater competition would it be galvanized into accepting new methods of production . |
| 8 | We will measure up to tomorrow 's requirements only by measuring up to today 's . |
| 9 | The Scots say they can only be driven away by holding up an open Bible in their face . |
| 10 | There must be something spicy in that combination : Daine could have solved at least three quarters of the crimes in the City just by owning up . |
| 11 | Temperature can be controlled over the range 120 to 770 K , either isothermally or more normally by ramping up and down at various fixed rates . |
| 12 | Stretching it further by setting up trading posts inland seemed neither necessary nor prudent , so a network of Indian traders grew up which took the Company 's goods inland . |
| 13 | Now according to a report in today 's Guardian , the company is considering going a step further by setting up a manufacturing plant in Russia . |
| 14 | The intense demand for labour which it generated both tended to depress the profit rate directly by dragging up product wages and provided the backdrop to other contributory factors such as difficulties of work organization and wages explosions ( chapter 12 ) . |
| 15 | A lady with a drained face wrapped in a nylon scarf and sitting at a table near by glanced up with a scowl . |
| 16 | Wimbledon followed suit a little later by opening up competition to professional tennis players . |
| 17 | If tasks are usually routine and predictable , then management can co-ordinate matters most efficiently by setting up rules and procedures to instruct people what to do . |
| 18 | Now by building up P and Q by elementary operations ( see 1.12 ) we obtain unc giving the canonical form for A. Similarly , for B we obtain unc Inverting Q and R , we find unc Hence D is given by unc and D is of degeneracy 2 . |
| 19 | CHANNEL 4 steals a march on GMTV 's debut tomorrow by serving up their own breakfast show tonight as a New Year 's Eve special . |
| 20 | DAVID Rocastle aims to get off to a flier with Leeds today by chalking up a hat-trick in the Makita Tournament . |
| 21 | ‘ The only thing that glass does n't do as well as metal is that metal generates some sound simply by moving up the string , and I really like that kind of character . |
| 22 | This may be done simply by taking up residence in the area , without saying anything to anyone other than the organization sponsoring the research . |
| 23 | He could do anything with , to or for this fictional character , simply by lifting up his pen . |
| 24 | Weediness , it would seem , can not be fully described simply by totting up a score . |
| 25 | So we can not work out the length of the whole period simply by adding up all the figures given . |
| 26 | A new type is on the market which will produce small groups of narrow pleats in addition to a standard gather , simply by pulling up an alternative set of cords . |
| 27 | Knowing that mere seconds might mean the difference between life and death for the hundreds of people trapped by the explosions , IMDEC responded immediately by setting up a citizens ' coordinating committee , drawing on the expertise and resources of 27 social and human rights organisations . |
| 28 | Therefore ‘ the struggle can be , and usually is , accompanied by a tremendous waste of resources and the breaking-up of the physical production base ( partially by dividing up large estates , implements , livestock , etc. ) , by a further reduction in the productive forces . ’ |
| 29 | We can usefully begin our discussion here by taking up a very important and characteristic religious theme : the ambiguity or ambivalence which is so often such a striking feature of mystical power . |
| 30 | Give her plenty of opportunities to practice eye/hand coordination besides dressing , ie by picking up small objects , playing with threading toys , building with bricks , etc . |